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What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari ? Did they share the modern Western conception—popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games—of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage?" Was the category fixed or fluid? How did it contrast with the Greeks and Romans' conception of their own cultural identity? Was it based on r...

What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari ? Did they share the modern Western conception—popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games—of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage?" Was the category fixed or fluid? How did it contrast with the Greeks and Romans' conception of their own cultural identity? Was it based on r...

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Part social commentary, part love story, this powerful memoir chronicles the authors' cross-country journey to talk to formerly condemned inmates and how they turned this experience into 'the best play of the year' (New York Times).

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Villy blev kun 43 år gammel. Levede et omtumlet liv med fysisk handicap der bevirkede skæv skolestart, flytning fra trygge omgivelser til København, mobning, forældrenes skilsmisse og tilbage til hjemegnen, hvor han aldrig kom i gang med noget. Forfatteren, der er Villys halvbror, fortæller, ved at opsøge de gamle steder, med vendsysselsk underfundig humor, om deres fælles oplevelser i drenge- og ungdomsårene. Villy rages herefter ind i meget...

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Responding to the changes that have swept across North Africa since the first edition, this sheds new light on the enduring dispute over Western Sahara. It reviews the history of the dispute, and explains how and why attempts made by the OAU and, more persistently, the UN failed to achieve a formula for resolution acceptable to both Morocco and Western Sahara's Polisario Front. Bringing the story up to the present, it describes the new interes...

Body by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany's turbulent post-World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that remain with us to this day. Sportswomen and men embodied modernity - quite literally - in all of its competitive, time-oriented excess and thereby helped to popularize, and even to naturalize, the sometimes threatening process of economic ...

Body by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany's turbulent post-World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that remain with us to this day.

Only a child, already a deadly assassin...The Chronicles of Shiverdark is five books in one. The first book is Of Kings and Dockrats. It is the story of a young and canny thief and blackmail collector called J'rael. Son of the evil Ebu Natral, the yellow-eyed underworld king whose minions terrorize the citizens of Wescove, J'rael is taken under the wings of his half-sister, the assassin Chu'Lin, and trained to become the most feared and deadly...

An intensive global search is on for "the rule of law", the holy grail of good governance, which has led to a dramatic increase in judicial reform activities in developing countries. This work examines the standard methods of legal and judicial reform.

Dæmningen blev med rette Erik Aalbæk Jensens gennembrudsroman. Nuanceret menneskeskildring og en vigtig problemstilling, gør romanen yderst vedkommende og levende. Med udgangspunkt i et omfattende dæmningsprojekt stilles der skarpt på det moderne menneskes ofte blinde tillid til tekniske landvindinger på bekostning af både natur-og selvforståelse. Romanen er til trods for sin historiske ramme også en samtidsroman, men dens helt centrale tema e...

An engrossing travelogue depicting Erik Jenson's journey with the headhunters of Borneo.

In 1920s, a long-lasting controversy on the interpretation of nuclear beta spectrum arose between Lise Meitner and Charles Drummond Ellis. This controversy, and the reactions from the contending parties when it was settled, reflect clearly the difference between the scientific communities in Berlin and Cambridge at that time. The Meitner-Ellis controversy ended in 1929, and it left an anomaly that attracted leading theoretical physicists. A ne...

Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. A publisher wanted it, Cullen said. He was sick and ready to talk. Everything would be on the record. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly dangerous. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, to see how committed he wa...

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The U.S. Constitution contains several limitations on the national taxing power. These limitations are almost always ignored due to the assumption that Congress is unconstrained in imposing taxes. The Taxing Power proves that assumption faulty by illustrating the importance of such limitations as the uniformity rule, the direct-tax apportionment rule, and the Export Clause. By looking at the historical origins of these limitations, Jensen argu...